Wake Forest - attend their MBA program for FREE
Posted by CMJ Tech Connection BLOG at 5/11/2009 8:37 AM 
Categories: Good to Know
Tags: Free education
Categories: Good to Know
Tags: Free education
The following is from an email I recieved today:
From: Derrick S. Boone, Ph.D.
I wanted to let you know about a great opportunity here at Wake Forest where you can get
a FREE education and get PAID while you're doing it.. Our Dean of the Schools of
Business is the former CEO of PepsiCo and very committed to diversity. He's gone around
to his CEO friends, who have agreed to donate a bunch of money to pay tuition and fees,
provide a stipend, and a job, to diverse students. The details are below. The problem is,
response to the program has been dismal! As a faculty member, I would be embarrassed
for him to have to tell his CEO friends, "thanks so much for your donation, but
unfortunately I have to give it back because we couldn't find any students who wanted it."
So, I need your help. Please contact me if you, or ANYONE you know
is interested in the program. I know TO has a long reach, and I want to take
advantage of it and help out as many young scholars as I can.
Don't worry about whether or not you (or they) have taken the GMAT, etc.
All you need to do at this point is JUST APPLY. In business, you have
o act when the opportunity is presented, and that is now.
Derrick S. Boone, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Marketing
Room 3139 Worrell Professional Center
Babcock Graduate School of Management
Wake Forest University
1834 Wake Forest Drive
Winston-Salem , NC 27109-8758
derrick.boone@ mba.wfu.edu
p 336.758..4475
f 336.758.4514
The Master of Art in Management program is designed specifically for liberal arts majors only.
The MA degree program is a 10 month intense study of the basic functional areas of business.
After graduation and working for approximately two years, all MA graduates are eligible to
apply to Wake Forest as part of the MA/MBA joint degree program and get the MBA in one
year. The new Dean, Steve Reinemund, has created a new scholarship for diverse students
pursuing the MA degree called the Corporate Fellowship..
The Corporate Fellowship provides full tuition and a $21,000 stipend to cover living expenses.
Additionally, each Corporate Fellow will participate in a practicum. The practicum has two
components, educational and professional development. Each student will be assigned a
mentor that is a high level executive with their sponsor corporation. The mentor will oversee
an educational project covering 4 of the functional areas of business using their own
corporation as the subject. The student will visit the corporation 3 - 4 times during the
program to present his/her results of their research project.
Additionally, the "professional development" component of the fellowship provides career
coaching and leadership development for the students. The goal for the corporation is to
be able to groom and hopefully, hire a top candidate from a diverse background for their
organization. Of course, there is no obligation that the students accept any offer of
employment. Still, the student benefits, even if they are not ultimately hired by their
sponsor corporation in that they have the MA degree and the type of experience that will
make them more marketable.
From: Derrick S. Boone, Ph.D.
I wanted to let you know about a great opportunity here at Wake Forest where you can get
a FREE education and get PAID while you're doing it.. Our Dean of the Schools of
Business is the former CEO of PepsiCo and very committed to diversity. He's gone around
to his CEO friends, who have agreed to donate a bunch of money to pay tuition and fees,
provide a stipend, and a job, to diverse students. The details are below. The problem is,
response to the program has been dismal! As a faculty member, I would be embarrassed
for him to have to tell his CEO friends, "thanks so much for your donation, but
unfortunately I have to give it back because we couldn't find any students who wanted it."
So, I need your help. Please contact me if you, or ANYONE you know
is interested in the program. I know TO has a long reach, and I want to take
advantage of it and help out as many young scholars as I can.
Don't worry about whether or not you (or they) have taken the GMAT, etc.
All you need to do at this point is JUST APPLY. In business, you have
o act when the opportunity is presented, and that is now.
Derrick S. Boone, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Marketing
Room 3139 Worrell Professional Center
Babcock Graduate School of Management
Wake Forest University
1834 Wake Forest Drive
Winston-Salem , NC 27109-8758
derrick.boone@ mba.wfu.edu
p 336.758..4475
f 336.758.4514
The Master of Art in Management program is designed specifically for liberal arts majors only.
The MA degree program is a 10 month intense study of the basic functional areas of business.
After graduation and working for approximately two years, all MA graduates are eligible to
apply to Wake Forest as part of the MA/MBA joint degree program and get the MBA in one
year. The new Dean, Steve Reinemund, has created a new scholarship for diverse students
pursuing the MA degree called the Corporate Fellowship..
The Corporate Fellowship provides full tuition and a $21,000 stipend to cover living expenses.
Additionally, each Corporate Fellow will participate in a practicum. The practicum has two
components, educational and professional development. Each student will be assigned a
mentor that is a high level executive with their sponsor corporation. The mentor will oversee
an educational project covering 4 of the functional areas of business using their own
corporation as the subject. The student will visit the corporation 3 - 4 times during the
program to present his/her results of their research project.
Additionally, the "professional development" component of the fellowship provides career
coaching and leadership development for the students. The goal for the corporation is to
be able to groom and hopefully, hire a top candidate from a diverse background for their
organization. Of course, there is no obligation that the students accept any offer of
employment. Still, the student benefits, even if they are not ultimately hired by their
sponsor corporation in that they have the MA degree and the type of experience that will
make them more marketable.
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